Demo page: real public data, in a page layout that is still being designed. Numbers are as the sources published them on the build date shown at the bottom.

Puerto Rico

How's Puerto Rico?

Yearly figures for Puerto Rico, from public data, with each one's source and rank one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

Right now in Puerto Rico

As of the site's last build: the drought map of October 20, 2026, the wildfire list of October 27, 2026 and stream gages on October 25, 2026. Every state.

Drought

49 of 78

counties have some area in drought (D1 or worse); 33 mostly, and 13 have extreme or exceptional drought. A year ago, 0 had some.

US Drought Monitor, via waterdata.dev

Wildfires not yet out

None reported here.

NIFC WFIGS, via wildfiredata.dev. A small fire can stay "not out" for weeks after it stops burning.

Rivers and streams

75 of 96

gages ran lower than on the same day last year; 21 higher.

USGS daily mean flow, October 25, 2026 against October 25, 2025, via waterdata.dev. One year back is all the API keeps, so this is not a long-term normal.

Puerto Rico year by year

Yearly figures for every state, latest complete year 2024 to 2025:jobs, wages and workplaces from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; the carbon intensity of the state's power plants from the EPA's eGRID.

Jobs and pay

Indicator	Latest	1 yr	5 yr	10 yr	Among states
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation	$700	+3.2%	+23.2%	+32.6%	Lowest quartile53 of 53 states in 2025
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives	947.6K jobs	0.0%	+13.8%	+5.6%	3rd quartile37 of 53 states in 2025
Business establishments2025 · workplaces covered by unemployment insurance, each location counted once	52.6K establishments	+1.1%	+13.9%	+14.5%	Lowest quartile44 of 53 states in 2025
Unemployment rate2025 · by where people live; 2025 averages 11 months, as BLS does, since October was not collected	5.6%	−0.1 pts	–	−6.4 pts	Highest quartile2 of 52 states in 2025
Labor force2025 · residents working or looking for work	1.2M people	+0.9%	–	+10.0%	3rd quartile36 of 52 states in 2025

Electricity

Indicator	Latest	1 yr	5 yr	10 yr	Among states	Trend
Carbon intensity of electricity generated2024 · at the power plants in the state, combustion only; not the electricity used there	726 g CO₂e/kWh	–	–	–	Highest quartile4 of 52 states in 2024

6 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among states" ranks Puerto Rico against every state, DC and territory with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Puerto Rico and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.